Steve Buscemi (Steven Vincent Buscemi) Quotes
I don't think I'm that much different from any other working actor that's trying to make a living.
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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I have felt that connection and stewardship for Earth for as long as I can remember. And not just for Earth, but the whole universe.
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I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
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I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
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My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.
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A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.
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We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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Doing 'Narcos' is a very, very important part of my life. I dedicated so much of my life to it.
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You play a part, and as soon as a movie is over and the camera stops, you go home and you're not really responsible for what you've done.
Nastassja Kinski
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I thought if my son was now eighteen years old and he was tempted to join the fight and take the burden of protecting his family - because it's always tempting especially for young men - what would I do as a mother to stop him?
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I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.
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I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us.
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In Israel, if a person doesn't agree with you, she just says no. In Alabama, someone would say, 'I'll think about it.' We would take that literally. So, if you ask for a favor and someone says they'll think about it, they're really not thinking about it.
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Unfortunately the world is what it is now. People don't get along for whatever reason. As professional athletes, in a way we're almost ambassadors for peace, because sports brings everyone together.
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Russia is a big polluter.
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God is waiting for us, to forgive us all, and what is broken, he'll fix.
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Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.
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I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next one coming out?
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I was so exhausted after fighting for the project for five years, shooting it was like the Bataan Death March.
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I don't think I'm that much different from any other working actor that's trying to make a living.
